Cel Animation Process (DIY)

[@samus88]

Dude, every time someone asks me why I still watch old cartoons, like all theatrical shorts by Disney/Warner/MGM (and others), like... it's art. The amount of work that went into any 6-7minute long short is amazing. Not only the plotting/writing/conceptualizing/gags/etc, but the actual drawing, inking, painting and filming. Heck, the organizing of the cells themselves, those sheets they used, they needed to label each cell and know the order to film them in, etc. It's baffling how most people don't even know how these things were made. They are a true art form.

[@LordBackuro]

It’s more challenging and a creative challenge, like that always creates good art. Which is why i think old animated stuff generally was so much better, because 1. aesthetically it just was more beautiful because it wasn’t too clean or cheap 2. it challenged the artist, they literally didn’t have much access to digital programs and shit to copy paste stuff. Or loose the little nooks n crannies and detail. It didn’t loose the ✨Aesthetic✨ While it is more expensive and a pain in the ass, it in the long term created SO Much better art. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Street Fighter, Old Superhero Cartoons, old Family Guy, Old Ghibli movies, old Anime. They all were so much, more unique Because of Cel shading.

[@spingleboygle]

now i can finally hold the knowledge of creating my very own season one-looking spongebob animations

[@martinakernosh1565]

Everything about this video makes me feel like I’m in 2004, I love it

[@ferretace]

You can use a polarizing filter to get rid of the glare and reflection! Also great video!

[@andrewdude1]

Sweet I’ll give it a shot thanks

[@danielslade9485]

You constantly keep evolving your techniques to keep cel animation alive.

[@kaylamcrossi3809]

Thank you so much for this video. I could never quite grasp how this process was happening and your video is perfect - shows every step, yet fits into 5 minutes! Love it. Wish I could give it a thousand likes

[@arturogonzalez-barrios8206]

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your art. I've been sharing these tutorials with my high school animation students, it got them so pumped and excited to see animation as physical art.

[@andrewdude1]

Whoa that’s cool!

[@billsomes9569]

So sick rock on Arturo! Doing the lords work

[@schwarzenegger_begger8810]

4:41 Looks *just like* and old-school animation! Flakes on the screen and all.

[@VennyRestore]

Cel animation has a very specific roughness that can’t be replicated with digital animation. The imperfections like cel shadows and rough imperfect xerox lines.

[@BlackbeltHitoshi]

Can't you just put cel shadows and rough imperfect Xerox lines in each frame while drawing digitally?

[@iknoweverything4959]

@@BlackbeltHitoshi You can, with a charcoal ink brush and you can even place physical paint textures on top of it with low opacity to give it a cel look. Even though it's cutout animation, South Park probably did it the best in their early seasons, giving that physical art look digitally.

[@wesleybermingham9986]

We need to keep this art alive.

[@bxbrenden]

Nice work! It’s cool to see your experimentation with a medium that’s not used as much anymore. Great tip about the cheaper acrylic paint puddling better. I’ve been making some cels myself, and expensive acrylic doesn’t puddle nearly that nicely.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

You don't see this kind of cell animation too often these days. Thanks for making this! I might have to give this a try

[@Amalgam8ion]

Adore the use of the KMart music, shit is so godlike

[@willbill808]

I KNEW it! I heard this music in I think a Kmart jingle from 1989. Immediately after finding it on KZbin I sampled it and made a beat out of it.

[@e-mananimates2274]

With all that goes in actual cel animation, I'm glad the process of 2-D animation is more digital!

[@creativersestudios7876]

Your videos getting better and better every time you upload. Keep up the good work man.

[@kapi2345]

Cel animation is the absolute HELL But it's worth it :)

[@DUTZCH_official]

One of the best videos on the internet. Up there with Vape Nation I'm serious.

[@Cheesemoonh]

When i get good at drawing, my goal is to create a 2D animation movie with this style

[@danielcotte4265]

Hi, just wanted to share that I think the painting technique is called floating because cel animators would actually float the paintbrush above the cel sheet and let the paint flow down. This is, like you say, to achieve a brushless finish. There are tricks to thin out the paint so it flows better too, it's cool that you figured out the cheaper stuff is good for this. Anyways, thanks for sharing. Very instructive and straight to the point video.

[@JunJP02]

Your tutorials are very informative and inviting to beginners. Kudos and props to you!

[@Blu3Jao]

Man you're really becoming an expert on this stuff! Good stuff.

[@MrHangman56]

What also works ive found that isnt so expensive is the transparent slip covers you can get for inside clip binders. They already have holes

[@wockemsockem5336]

I LOVE THIS BRO KEEP IT UP

[@SirIkeMedia]

Cool informative video, man. I make cartoons in Flash/Animate but I wish I could make them look like this.

[@gibsonflyingv2820]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Unless you go to art school its very very difficult to get into this secret lost art and find out how folks did it back in the day. So helpful for us who are trying to learn and eventually make a demo reel and work for a studio some day. Thank you so much.

[@rolandkatsuragi]

Now I can see why multiple animators animated different objects in the same shot

[@Snowonacone]

Absolutely love these tutorials! Do you think you’ll ever try stop motion?

[@mychannel3154]

This great short cartoon looks similar to something you see on 90s Cartoon Network

[@nonameman7114]

I thought it was courage at first glance

[@tigerofftopic2048]

This looks so cool! I definitely want to try out cel animation. I love animation but so far I've only done digital animation. Thanks for making this video, it gave me a few ideas for when I give it a try.

[@theunkillablecat8458]

Cel Animation is really Cool!!

[@CharcoalRabbit]

The cel animation you made reminds me of Ren and Stimpy.

[@cade32X]

The song is “Jamboree” by Mladen Franko, for those wondering.

[@dante224real1]

lets get this trending!!! this is SUPER important for college students

[@AbsurdistSagas]

Beautiful process

[@BonesMcoy]

Hey Dude1, I just watched The Secret of NIMH again and it inspired me to create some cell animations of my own. This is the first video I'm watching on how to do it and a lot of the technique shown here can easily be translated to using software to make cell-style animations using only simple software. That is, if someone wanted to get into making animations but only have access to a PC.

[@DrRobotnikPingas]

This looks great. This makes me reminds me of „Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog“

[@GamerFreddyandgangWTH]

Whenever I think about cel animation, I always watch this video

[@johnsterling9455]

I love this. I was gonna try my hand at cell animation. I love the technique and look it gives. And your video was helpful as hell! Thank you!

[@snekk3689]

I love these tutorials, thx man

[@littykittymode]

This is so awesome. Thanks for sharing your process, I keep finding myself back on your channel lol. Pls never stop

[@dreamywolfdd]

this is gonna come very handy, thank you for this tutorial i love your work too

[@NobleGasHelium]

You're a genius

[@FujikkoJP]

*Isn't there an app for cell animations?*

[@arturogonzalez-barrios8206]

Yeah, thanks for this man!

[@henryeyes22]

damn this is really neat!

[@roberttaylr]

Beautiful

[@weamers]

oh my god you're the dat weasel and rahul guy, this is super cool i love your art

[@ameliab7626]

Exactly the tutorial I needed!! I love the final result it’s so silly. Question do you need a paint pen to draw on animation cels or can I use like, a fine tip sharpie for thinner lines?

[@andrewdude1]

I think the sharpie will be permanent but believe it ended up slightly transparent when I tried it’s been a while tho

[@rileythecartoonist5818]

Great video dude! I’m pretty new to animation but I’m training myself to do it. I really dig the old school style and I do pretty much digital only animation wich is cool but I prefer the old way. Once my animation studio is open this is what we’re gonna do. I’m just curious on a lot of it. Like how to get the hole punched paper and all that stuff. It would mean a lot if you could make a video or somthing on more detail about how to do this stuff

[@MoiTion]

Se me hace muy interesante como antes utilizaban celdas para poder hacer animaciones, además del proceso tardado, peor el resultado valia la pena, buen video :)

[@memetrash5082]

Keep up the great work dude!

[@nikskyanimation4924]

thanks,imma try and do it on my own,i am subscribed,amazing video.

[@mbw6957]

This is too cool! Nice job, truly

[@juantoledo5248]

That’s so freaking cool

[@AnaGomez-sg7ho]

This is such a good tutorial thanks

[@ronniewest838]

That’s really dope‼️

[@byartion3831]

can you make another tutorial how to make cel animation hd screen

[@adamekhoff43]

Yo! Remember me? I still love your cel animations to this day!

[@TheTrashStash]

great job and tutorial!

[@zaquar]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@ryacommerce]

Bevekashah, tell us what camera you used. I'd like to have a name to start with for looking up one for myself. And for that matter, the tripod you used for that top-down setup. I've never once seen before a camera set up like that. The approaches you've shown here circumvent weaknesses of a scanner for me.

[@Korgi_Polymer]

Keep on keepin on man, as always I'm available for voice work. Especially after August!

[@tonyl423]

Are you working on any pitches?

[@TESTMACARONI]

damn, this is pretty awesome

[@lawich9943]

Great job! It's just amazing :)

[@iknoweverything4959]

For the cels, have you tried washing them so you can reuse them? They did that back in the 40's when the material was rare.

[@CMan-x7k]

How do you wash them?

[@iknoweverything4959]

@@CMan-x7k I saw them do it in a sink.

[@idontlike5143]

Great job, just one question, how did you make the lighting really good

[@nice-qm5jc]

Very cool. I hope you live forever

[@BasementStudi0s]

i gotta do this sometime

[@CinemaGatesPictures]

Nice Job!

[@TheLunatrick]

Thank you for this!

[@Yay2ew]

wait what song is this? I love it!

[@thescythe9918]

if andrew dude upload, i clicc. fast.

[@jondensk]

Man this reminds me of me back in the day when i first started animating. I animated a test of goofy on 16 field paper. Im going to blow your mind...ready? .... "Tvpaint" haha try that instead of the pain in the butt process of real cels!

[@mikeandnana9935]

Can’t find a light desk like what you use and was hoping you knew where to get one

[@andrewdude1]

There's a lot on amazon just LED light table or trace table

[@finngomezgamer]

Awesome 👏

[@NephewFlops]

From a dude named Andrew ur the only Andrewdude1 and you are #1

[@SamArt6607]

Thank you Micheal Cera

[@Leon-qh9br]

nice what program are you using I am doing a multilane camera setup with my Panasonic Lumix camera but want to find the right camera to communicate with, dragon frame just seems exspenive

[@ericpratt984]

Dang, with how hard that is, I'm surprised someone decided to go through with it.

[@korisnthere]

Rad video

[@collinwade]

Dude I love your voice you should try out voice acting

[@the4ng31guy]

Thank a lot dude

[@samuraivader3814]

Sexcellent work there. I came here because I'm trying to find a way to preserve my cel collection digitally, any recommendations?

[@ВладимирЧесс]

Cool!

[@ShukriAmri]

Hi Andrew, how can I contact you regarding uses our video?

[@SussyPoster69]

Cool

[@StudioHWO]

Holy crap this video is from 2021!

[@vtorkev]

You got a new Suscriber

[@ChristinaBatte]

amazing !!!!!!

[@toontrainstudios8289]

What camera do you use? By the way andrew do you reccomend using a scanner to photo the drawings?

[@jagadishchoudhury8822]

Which video editing software did you use for this animation

[@jagadishchoudhury8822]

Please reply

[@andrewdude1]

Adobe premiere

[@jagadishchoudhury8822]

Thanks😊😊

[@ManfredoMorales]

This was rad

[@saintfisuto1072]

I've never used cellulose acetate, only laminating pouches.. So tell me. Does the paint shrink when it dries on the cels?

[@thescythe9918]

Excuse me, but what is the music at 4:40 called?

[@gabrielrojas8850]

What’s the music you used in this?

[@yulianarodriguez3351]

What software did you use?

[@cubonefan3]

About how many hours did it take to create the final 5-second animation shown?

[@Dawanoman]

cool video

[@mikecano7026]

I'm confused!!! I have an Xmen cel that says x-30 so I thought it was from episode 30. It has R2 on the bottom right and a bunch of other text. It was not used in any episode. Could this be from a rare cut scene. Is it more valuable?